Word: hopelesses
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...operas after the death of Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Strauss had wanted Novelist Stefan Zweig as his librettist, but he was advised-i.e., ordered-by the Nazis to find a text writer of pure Aryan stock. His choice was Library Director Joseph Gregor, whose first draft was so hopeless ("Your dialogue between the two commanders is all wrong," wrote Strauss furiously; "it reads like two school teachers") that Zweig secretly rewrote the whole thing. Acclaiming the day in 1648 that the Westphalian Peace Treaty ended the Thirty Years' War, Der Friedenstag was denounced at its 1938 premiere...
...novel, set in a British colony on the edge of independence, is Lieut. Michael Glyn, an English lad of good family and education who has no sense of vocation for his job and is emotional to the point of hysteria. This is the sort of man who has the hopeless task of working out an orderly turnover to a native government after the new country's first election...
...means that a majority of children say their father does not live at home. And abandonment is the insularity of inferior government services, of political impotence, of being a football in organized charity's fights with the city of Cambridge, of living in The Elms, roughest, poorest, dirtiest most hopeless blocks in the city...
...refuses to equate man's frailty with his destiny. He never confuses the tragic with the merely hopeless. Seferis' career as a diplomat in many of the world's trouble spots has conditioned his view of history as a terrain of action rather than impotence. Indeed, so diligent a diplomat is Seferis that he writes all his poetry at night, often as late as 3 a.m., when he can concentrate in solitude...
...make the other crews' plight even more hopeless, Eliot will be allowed to use its new shell in this afternoon's championship. Paid for by private contributions, the Eliot shell is at least ten years newer than the newest of the other House boats. The advantage could be as much as two or three seconds...